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#1 2007-07-23 05:18:22
Importing photoshop images & editing...
I have recently started using scratch..I have two problems...
1. I design costumes in photoshop...and delete the bkgroung so that only the desired costume is remaining..but when i drag it to scratch it comes along with a white bk ground which i dont want...any solution...???
2. When i edit costumes in scratch the rotation angle is too big for certain situation..any way to have rotation by desired small angles..??
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#2 2007-07-23 07:53:27
Re: Importing photoshop images & editing...
1) You'll need to set the background colour (white, in this case) to transparent. It may nto work with drag-and-drop, but it should work if you save the file and import it. (That's how I usually do it).
2 Hold down shift when you click the "rotate" button and you get asked for a specific amount of degrees.
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#3 2007-07-23 14:45:13
- kevin_karplus
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Re: Importing photoshop images & editing...
If you save images in jpeg, there is no transparency. For cartoon-like images, you can switch to GIF, which can have 255 colors plus transparency. For photo images, you can use the paintcan in scratch's image editor to change the background back to transparent.
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#5 2007-07-23 16:08:58
Re: Importing photoshop images & editing...
If you export your image as a .png file with image's transparent region mapped to alpha level transparency, the image will import into Scratch and keep the regions transparent. This is particularly handy if you have a lot of small, enclosed regions that you want to keep transparent. (In general, I find .png image files are the most reliable if you want to keep transparency. Since it is a newer format, it doesn't have quite the number of variations that .gif does.)
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#6 2012-09-09 10:43:02
Re: Importing photoshop images & editing...
I'm sorry, but .png images get filled with a random color background and don't come up with transparency when I import them in Scratch. I would recommend saving the costumes as .gif files, because the bucket-fill isn't very good and will leave blotches of background color. Scratch accepts transparency from .gif files, though.
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#7 2012-09-09 10:55:11
Re: Importing photoshop images & editing...
Starglow wrote:
I'm sorry, but .png images get filled with a random color background and don't come up with transparency when I import them in Scratch. I would recommend saving the costumes as .gif files, because the bucket-fill isn't very good and will leave blotches of background color. Scratch accepts transparency from .gif files, though.
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